Trungpa Rinpoche often talked about how the state of happiness is not our goal; that’s the goal of ego. We reach for pleasure, we avoid pain: that’s samsara. Want genuine happiness? You’re looking for a more fundamental state of being, the ocean beneath the waves.

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